Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-11
DAKOTA ITEMS.

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at Leonard.
The Aurora shirt factory has been
induced to move to Elkton.
The frame of the Unitarian church
at Sioux Falls is being raised.
Fourteen horses have recently been
stolen in the lllghmore region.
Anton Lonsted, a Harwood farm
hand, was struck by lightning.
They keep the wells locked at Salem
on account of the scarcity of water.
The Consolidated Tank Line compa-
nv are to put in a 10000 plant atSiouX
Falls.
Judge Spencer, of the fifth district is
in New York, where he will visit
month.
BURGERS robbed Col. Sheafe's house
at Watertown of all the plate and
iewelry.
The 1O-year-old boys at Sioux Falls
are investing their surplus cash in
town lots.
The Bridgewater artesian well con-
tinues spouting gas and water-a sec
ond Saratoga geyser.
Col. Lounsberry has commenced the
publication of an evening daily at
Duluth, the Journal.
The total valuation of Yankton
county is S3,l44,933, an increase of
$500 1888 over last year.
Large numbers of emigrant teams
still continue to pass through Harold
enroute for the Black Hills.
The $4,000 Of Hanson county bonds
were sold Thursday to Fulton Il Cow
ran, of Grand Forks, for Sl0,417.
The Minneapolis and Pacific railroad
company will at once build an elevator
at Oakes, equal to any now there.
Gov. Church, Judge Spencer and
Auditor Ward purchased land at HUI
ron to make an addition, paying $1,000.
Thomas Peter, a farmer living near
Okoboji, was struck by lightning and
killed in his house while going from
one room to another.
The territorial board ofhealth visited
Tuesday the penitentiary at Sioux Falls.
| They reported to Press reporter that
the sanitary condition was excellent.
The druggists of Dakota met in con-
vention at Fargo Wednesday. The
prohibition question was discussed.
Their next meeting is at jamestown.
The applications for the $1,000 bonus
offered by the citizens of Alexandria
for a creamery are from some of the
most practical creamery men of the
country.
The annual camp meeting Of the
Mitchell district NJ. L. church will be
held in the famous grove on the jim
river two miles below Forestberg, Aug
ust 16 to %.
"Ordway" Johnson says there will
be one-state convention called soon to
meet at jamestown, Redlield or Sioux
Falls. 1t will be non-political and take
in all opposed to division.
The extension of the main line of the
Minneapolis and Pacific railroad com.
pany to Oakes has given that city ar
impetus that will soon make it one OF
the important cities of the territory.
The total valuation of Minnehah;
county is S7,G0O,o00. That of the city
of Sioux Falls is S3,712,00O. Fully
100000 in the city does not show W
in the list, being manufactures ex
empted under special laws.
Thomas w. Bishop, publisher of th'
Tribune, at Volga, Dakota, has asso
, ciated with himself Mr.. Cobb, who ha
, been connected with the Inter-Ocea1
for many years for the purpose of es
tablishing at Oakes a newspaper.
: Deputy United States Mining Survey
or Whites commission has been re
yoked. The direct cause of his suspen
: Financial News pronouncing the Har
ney Peak Tin company a gigantic fraud
The owners of the Troy farm at Tap
pan have served an order on Count
l Treasurer Fridley restraining him from
collecting real tax. This trouble aros
because Kidder county refuses to rec
ognize Tappan as part of Stanton coun
l ty.
Judge Francis. at Mandan ordere
. G. II. Hood and two others out OF cour
because they sat in their shirt sleeves
: Hood afterwards talked very plainl
to the judge at the railroad station
:, and Mandan people were much eS
cited.
' A north and south railroad is rum
3 ored along the west side of Hyde coun
ty to take in Holabird. 1t is said tha
+ it is an affair of the Chicago an,
/, Northwestern railway company and i
q is also said to be an enterprise of tn
, Illinois Central.
Spencer, on the Northwestern be
tween Mitchell and Sioux Falls, want
9 a newspaper office, a good hotel, Il har
/ ness shop and Il Touring mill, and vii
} give inducements to any newspaper o
Q manufacturing institution started, a
: also good hotel.
st, Paul papers report new railroa'
deal by which Aberdeen will be con
3 nected with the Northern Pacific roat
at some point east of Bismarck. Z
contract has been closed for the con
r struction OF the line, and Boston capi
tallsts have agreed to take stock ant
, bonds of the proposed new road, which
will sail under the corporate name O
the st. Paul, Black Hill & Pacific.
August Scmiltz, of Olmsted county
!, Minnesota, went to the house of MI